Paul von Plehwe

Paul von Plehwe (30 June 1850-28 March 1916) was an Imperial Russian Army general during World War I.

Biography
Paul von Plehwe was born in 1850 to a family of aristocratic Baltic Germans, and he graduated from an officer's cavalry school before serving in the Imperial Russian Army. He served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and worked in the Bulgarian war ministry before returning to Russia in 1880. He went on to command a cavalry regiment in 1890, a cavalry division in 1899, and the Moscow Military District in 1909. During World War I, he commanded the Russian 5th Army during the Battle of Galicia; he later assumed command of the Russian 12th Army at the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes. In February 1916, a sickly Plehwe resigned from the army, and he died in March at the age of 65.